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Heart size growth after heart transplant in children?
Pediatric heart transplantation represents approximatively 15% of the total heart transplantations 1.
Several studies have provided some insights on the cardiac growth after heart transplantation. ...
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How does a cardiopulmonary bypass machine continue circulation without cutting off circulation to the pulmonary veins and artery?
"Cardiopulmonary bypass" means the heart (cardio) and lungs (pulmonary) are skipped/bypassed.
Blood from the body is collected where it returns to the heart, in the vicinity of the right ...
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Can Stillborn babies be organ donors?
Practically it is not possible to use a still born heart. One would have to monitor the exact time of death when the heart stops in utero, then retrieve the still born by caesarean section, then ...
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